So is this (Michael Snow, 1982)

[Fitzcarraldo]

"SO IS THIS parlays an elegantly simple concept into an unpredictable, cumulatively rich experience.

"The film is a text in which each shot is a single word, tightly-framed white letters against a black background. Compared to Snow's recent epics ... it seems almost a throwaway but it's also the most satisfying film he's made in a decade ....

"With formalist belligerence, SO IS THIS threatens to make its viewers 'laugh cry and change society,' even promising to get 'confessional.' Although the film does reflect Snow's personality - his Canadian-ness, preference for humor over irony, obsession with art world chronology (who did what first) - its only confession is the tacit acknowledgement that he's sensitive to criticism. Snow takes full advantage of his film's system of discourse to twit restless audiences .ƒ A lot of this is pretty funny but SO IS THIS is more than a series of gags. Snow manages to defamiliarize both film and language, creating a kind of moving concrete poetry while throwing a monkey wrench into a theoretical debate (is film a language?) that has been going on sporadically for 60 years.

"If you let it, Snow's film stretches your definition of what film is - that's cinema and SO IS THIS." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

from canyon

Michael.Snow.-.So.is.This.1982.XviD.VHSrip-CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi

[SUBLIMOTRUST]

Mmmmm looks interesting Fitz, i'll go for it!!

Slukius

[auess]

THANKS AGAIN! :D:D

[robertbresson]

Michael Snow forever. Thanks a lot fitz

[Sarmale]

Me la llevo, gracias.